{"id":182,"date":"2020-09-24T18:29:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T18:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/?p=182"},"modified":"2020-09-24T21:42:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T21:42:59","slug":"a-very-boring-choose-your-own-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/2020\/09\/24\/a-very-boring-choose-your-own-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"A Very Boring Choose Your Own Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"h5p-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"h5p-iframe-1\" class=\"h5p-iframe\" data-content-id=\"1\" style=\"height:1px\" src=\"about:blank\" frameBorder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"Takeoff\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The pandemic has been going on for six months, and it&#8217;s strange how far away pre-pandemic life feels. It&#8217;s seems almost incomprehensible that I ever took an airplane, went on a business trip, stayed in a hotel. I don&#8217;t travel much now that I teach full-time, but when I worked in marketing\/communications, I used to travel fairly regularly. I always hated it, since travel flares up a lot of my pain issues.<\/p>\n<p>Lately, however, I&#8217;ve found myself trying to remember the small details of what those moments were like. So, since I wanted to teach myself H5P&#8217;s branching scenarios, I decided to create a very boring Choose Your Own Adventure. This Choose Your Own Adventure just recreates a business trip: something that would have been unremarkable and even annoying a few years ago, but now seems like a wild, exotic vacation. I found it very soothing to remember these details and to create something where you could spend 10 or 15 minutes wandering around an airport. It reminded me of when, as a teenager, I used to create elaborate text-based role-playing games.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, this might only be soothing to me, but I figured I&#8217;d share it in case anyone wanted to pretend to be on a pre-pandemic business trip. I don&#8217;t think we should return to this life: so much of it was wasteful. But these days, when doing normal things feels like visiting Jurassic Park, I had fun making this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pandemic has been going on for six months, and it&#8217;s strange how far away pre-pandemic life feels. It&#8217;s seems almost incomprehensible that I ever took an airplane, went on a business trip, stayed in a hotel. I don&#8217;t travel much now that I teach full-time, but when I worked in marketing\/communications, I used to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}